Cotton Jones – Glorylight And Christie

The first piece of vinyl I picked up (from the caravan floor) as a kid was by the Cotton Mill Boys. Even as an impressible dot I was still not taken in by them so as it warped by the leaking gas heater I was slow to alert the authorities. I am constantly reminded of the event whenever I read about similarly named bands. Cotton Jones soon vanquished such shiver inducing memory queasiness though through their downright adorableness. Made up of Page France lead man Michael Neu and Whitney McGraw they are another play on she/him vocal sweetness and on ‘Glorylight And Christie’ they’ve hit the jackpot. It’s taken from their upcoming ‘Tall Hours In The Glowstream’ LP and displays a grasp on country aesthetics that will appeal to the hair clipped thick-rimmed glassed brigade. The odd old fogy is also likely to be enamoured, if not totally cured. KD